I always wanted to photograph bands, it's what the cool kids were doing when I was photographing cute babies and children, something which I absolutely love and feel no need to apologise.  The thing is that I'd just never had the opportunity to photograph a band but I knew one day I would and on that day I would be pretty darn fantastic!  Now anyone who knows me knows I am the queen of a quirky concept, really I think it's probably more that I am the Queen of Quirky but what the hey I'm not going to complain.

So a couple of months ago I received an interesting opportunity, would I like to photograph one of Newcastles rising stars, would I like to photograph the awesome Villain Thomas, aye said she, lets go to a nature reserve on a late afternoon for soft hazy light, well that sort of didn't happen and we ended up at St Mary's Island at mid-day in glaring sunshine clambering over rocks with tons of camera gear, situation and lighting not so perfect but you work with what you've got so I rocked it, well just a little bit, it's taken me a long time to be so confident in my own work but I'm way past the stage of asking if it's good enough.

and so there you have it, an afternoon spent in the company of uber cool band Villain Thomas, I love them, they're having a launch for their EP "The Waters" on April 27th at 8pm at As You Like It, Jesmond, I'll be there photographing it along with a few other photographers but come down, by a copy of the EP, it's pretty awesome stuff!

and onwards to the future and my involvement with another North East Band, a band who are so close to breaking it that it's untrue, I love, adore and cherish this band and think they're quite the coolest thing since sliced bread and I'm not just saying this, I've seen them play live several times now, I have the EP, I know the words to the songs, my husband and I danced to their music just last weekend.  Yesterday they made the official announcement that we're going to be working together and I was so excited that I ran around the house squealing.  We have such big plans for amazing shoots, My Other Life, here I come....  I know it seems like they're just a footnote but you watch this space because this is going to be big!

A quick Friday round up

On Monday evening we went to the Hyena Cafe in Newcastle to the launch of an album by North East band My Other Life, these guys are superb, amazing melodic tunes and lead singer James has a voice which could melt chocolate, if you love Ben Folds you are going to love these guys, they are on You Tube, follow the link and then you can easily search for more of their stuff, anyone who knows me knows that musically i'm quite hard to please so I was delighted to discover My Other Life.

It's been another one of those weeks where everything has been, well just lovely really, on Tuesday I was delighted to be featured on the Love My Dress blog with my 1940's shoot.  It's one of my favourite vintage blogs, brides if you are planning a vintage inspired wedding you can't find a better uk resource than this wonderful blog, you can feel how enthusiastic Annabel is about everything she writes.

On Wednesday I photographed another Dressing Up session, a lady who longed to be Cleopatra, I went down to the beach at Blyth, somewhere you wouldn't usually find Cleopatra and on a very cold windy day was delighted to get these images.

and yesterday I met two enthusiastic art students who were keen to get involved in the project and shot these images.

I am still very much looking for models to get involved, everyone who gets involved gets a 12x8 print as a thank you and an invite to the exhibition in the summer, if you want to take part give me a call at the number above or contact me through my website